As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even] all of it: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 15. As thou didst rejoice.] As thou wast sick of the devil's disease, rejoicing at other men's harms; so, by a strange turn of things, others shall rejoice at thy just destruction, and revel in thy ruins: and at the last day especially, when thou shalt be awarded thy portion with the devil and his angels. 2Th 1:6-8
Thou shalt be desolate, O Mount Seir.] This was accordingly effected shortly after by Nebuchadnezzar and his Chaldees, as Josephus a testifieth; and is daily executed on the Church's enemies, who shall all be ere long in the place that is fittest for them - scil., under Christ's feet.
And all Idumea, even all of it.] The Edomites, that thought of seizing on others' lands, lost their own. They who covet all, do oft lose all; yea, even the pleasure of that they possess; as a greedy dog swalloweth the whole meat that is cast him, without any pleasure, as gaping still for the next morsel.
a Lib. xii. cap. 11.